Puppeteer

Rebekah Joan Boley, age seventeen, lives in Adrian, Michigan. She is one of nine children in her family and an eleven-year veteran of home schooling. She is a member of Fairfield Baptist Church where she sings in the choir and been a puppeteer. She has volunteered for both Habitat for Humanity and for the Lenawee Therapeutic Riding Program. She has also participated for three years in the Southeast division of CEF (Child Evangelism Fellowship). She is currently attending the EMT program at LISD…

Revolutionary France was a period of great turmoil and change that unfolded over two decades starting in the late 1780’s. Brought on by many culminating factors, the French revolution altered the lives of all social classes. Clinging to the old regime, the nobility and monarchy continued to live lavish lifestyles while their subjects starved. The rising class of professionals whose wealth nearly matched that of the nobles continued to be taxed at the same rates as the peasants, making them…

From the ancient Greek mythology of the “Judgment of Paris” to the selection of the May Day Queen in the United States, it is clear that the narrative of “beauty contests” amongst women is not a recent human construction; rather, its long history may in fact partially explain how we have come to normalize the judgment of female bodies. Nevertheless, the issue is even more problematic when we extend this practice to the bodies of extremely young girls. Three-year-old Paisley Dickey made headline…

Shakespeare portrays Lady Macbeth as an eloquent and pernicious character, between being a villain and a victim of her villainy, both manipulating and manipulated. Throughout the tragedy of ‘Macbeth’, she never actually kills anyone, in fact she cannot bring herself to commit the deed. Despite being responsible for instigating the idea of murder to Macbeth, she refers to the death of Duncan as ‘it’, indicating a hesitant confirmation of the deed. Would Macbeth himself alone have committed the…

For this assignment, I chose to do Plato’s myth of the cave. When reading Plato’s myth of the cave I really didn’t understand what Plato was trying to illustrate. I never thought it would be a subliminal message to this story. When reading this story, I interpreted it a totally different way. I thought it was just a typical story about prisoners who were locked up for their entire lives and one day a guard had a change of heart for one of the prisoners so he decided to set him free. I was very…

Carnival is the birth of a whole new life; it is a time of joy and unity. Spectacular, outrageous events are planned throughout the span of the celebration. “Carnival festivities and the comic spectacles and ritual connected with them had an important place in the life of the medieval man (Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais)”. These over the top events won over the people’s hearts in the Renaissance and in the Middle Ages. During Carnival festivities, rules were thrown out the window and laugher was the…

A paradoxical question has arisen from many philosophers’ musings: what is reality? Plato gives his version of the answer in his anxiety-inducing “Allegory of the Cave”. In a dark cave, Plato depicts prisoners who have been “chained so that they cannot move, and can only see” what is in front of them (Plato). With this restriction in movement, they are only able to see the shadows of “men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals” (Plato). These…

In William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as a masterful puppeteer in a male predominant world in which she attempts to control. Throughout this tragedy, the role of manhood and what it takes to be a man is called into question. Lady Macbeth is one who desires to take on the male role in the play’s cruel world. The audience sees what manhood means in her eyes as she manipulates her husband into committing numerous, horrific crimes. She has many male characteristics, but…

The Holocaust, orchestrated by mainly the German Nazi regime, which occurred between 1933-1945, was the deliberate attempt to slaughter the Jewish people. In 1941, there were approximately eleven million Jews living Europe; however, by 1945, their population had diminished by six million. When discussing “The Final Solution,” a euphemism for this genocide, the notorious dictator’s name comes to mind. Without the reinforcement Hitler received and his power, he would not have been able to execute…

Following World War Two, tensions were high between the USA and Soviet Russia. The two countries had been part of an alliance during the war, but after Hitler’s defeat the Russians initiated a struggle for global supremacy between communism and capitalism that was to last the next forty-five years (Roberts, 2013). This struggle became known as the ‘cold war’. During the height of this ‘war’, the US government had ‘committed vast resources’ to an extremely effective programme of anti-communist…